Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a congenital disorder of children, caused by a variety of genetic mutations. It is thus a heterogeneous disorder, with the same clinical manifestations being ...

High sputum inflammatory concentrations in children with primary ciliary dyskinesia were linked to high structural lung injury percentages, according to study results published in Annals of the ...

Research by the University of Cambridge and University of Strathclyde reveals that cilia in the respiratory tract generate ...

Pediatric patients who likely had primary ciliary dyskinesia more frequently also had asthma vs. patients without this condition, according to a research letter published in JAMA Network Open ...

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Exeter, have been awarded a Wellcome Discovery Award grant of ...

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), a dysfunction of the motile cilia, is not diagnosed only in childhood, as previously thought. 1 Some patients are not diagnosed with the rare genetic disease ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unrecognized way that human airways protect lungs from infection—through the action of cilia, tiny hair-like structures lining the respiratory tract.

Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia syndrome associated with abnormal ciliary orientation in infants. Eur Respir J 2001; 17 :444–448. Article CAS Google Scholar ...

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DOMedically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Situs inversus is a rare ailment in ...

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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a rare disease of childhood and the original ciliopathy to be identified. It leads to a variety of clinical manifestations, which often lead to a fatal outcome ...